Melvin Burgess Homepage

Well worth visiting for chatty and informative news which often includes a robust and well-argued defence against the latest criticisms aimed at him.

It also houses an interesting set of questions and answers put together by Burgess from several interviews and a set of short essays on each of his books describing how he came to write them and the thinking behind their structure, themes and characterisation. The site has a few articles written by Burgess about writing and the development of teenage fiction which are more likely to appeal to teachers and parents than young adult readers.